To become solitary and simple in utter aloneness -- living … - Ippen

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To become solitary and simple in utter aloneness -- living wholly unconcerned about the multitude of worldly affairs, and abandoning and disentangling yourself from all things -- is to die. We are born alone; we die alone.

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Ippen (一遍上人) (1234–1289), also known as Zuien, was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) who founded the Ji (時宗 time sect) branch of .

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Alternative Names: Ippen Shōnin • Chishin • Enshō Daishi • Yugyō Shōnin

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The Buddha Dōgen Zhuangzi Emil Cioran Fernando Pessoa

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In this brief span this body exists,
Clothing and food are of course indispensable;
But knowing them to be fruits of former lives,
I make no effort at all to obtain them.

Food, clothing, and shelter are the three evil paths. To desire and make a display of clothing is karma for the path of beasts. To greedily crave food is karma for the path of famished ghosts. To set up a shelter is karma for the path of hell. Hence, if you aspire to part from the three evil paths, you must free yourself from food, clothing, and shelter.

Once our false thinking has completely ceased</br>There is neither start nor conclusion, beginning nor end</br>In the oneness of Buddha and sentient beings</br>Say Namu-amida-butsu.

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